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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Go Russia? Putin to Send 150,000 Troops to Wipe Out ISIS

EDIT (3:15 PM CST): I think this is an interesting story, but the reports should be taken with a grain of salt, especially the first. There is no doubt that Putin is dialing things up in Syria. Whether or not this will end with 150,000 Russian troops on the ground is another question.British newspapers, including the Daily Express have been closely following one of the most extraordinary developments of the post-cold war world. It's hard to see how the military defeat (by anyone) of this murderous Muslim movement can fail to be a good thing. On the other hand, replacing ISIS militants with Russians and, if recent reports are to be believed, Iranians and Chinese is troubling for all sorts of obvious reasons. President Barrack Obama's weakness, incompetence and pro-Muslim sympathies have created a vacuum whose full impact is only now becoming fully apparent.

But if I were a normal human being, lying low in Palmyra or Raqqa,desperately hoping to live through the ISIS nightmare, guess who I would be rooting for right now?

“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions.

"These and other highly exact means of attack in recent days have been used to target objects of Islamic State terrorists.

"Command posts, stores of weapons and oil products, workshops where weapons of suicide bombers are made."

Meanwhile a terrorism expert revealed to Express.co.uk that ISIS have vastly exaggerated their military strength and called on Western leaders to launch a co-ordinated fightback which would obliterate the hate group.

The deployment of the Spetsnaz - the elite of the elite in Russia's army who have to undergo a gruelling training programme to earn their stripes - is the latest example of the megalomaniac leader's ruthless determination to shore up the rule of his close ally.

It is especially significant because many of the men have a deep hatred of jihadis from their time fighting in Chechnya's bloody civil war, when Islamist fanatics battling for independence carried out frequent atrocities against Russian citizens.

The move comes after it emerged that Putin is set to send 150,000 troops to Syria to wipe out the evil hate group once and for all.

His jets have waged a merciless bombing campaign against the jihadis in recent weeks, blitzing more than 50 facilities including a key command centre and a suicide belt factory.

A military source told the Mirror: “They are extremely aggressive and highly trained.

“They are there to mop up after air strikes, call in air strikes, go on extremely covert missions against rebels and ultimately wipe them out.

“And they will not be as accountable as British or US special forces. They are there for one reason, to wipe out anyone threatening Assad. By any means. And by doing that they will be consolidating Russia’s position on the Med and in the Middle East.”